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Sep 21, 2003 Focus
Invisible Hand(s): Quality Assurance in the Age of Author Self-Archiving

by Gerry McKiernan

There are forces, factors, and influences other than pending classical peer review that assure the quality of scholarship before formal publication.

Volume 2 • Issue 03 • 2003

Sep 21, 2003 Focus
Self-archive unto others as ye would have them self-archive unto you

by Stevan Harnad

Scholars and scientists do research to create new knowledge so that other scholars and scientists can use it to create still more new knowledge and to apply it to improving people's lives. They are paid to do research, but not to report their research: that they do for free, because it is not royalty-revenue from their research papers but their "research impact" that pays their salaries, funds their further research, earns them prestige and prizes, etc. "Research impact" means how much of a contribution your research makes to further research: do other researchers read, use, cite, and apply your findings? The more they do, the higher your research impact. One way to measure this is by counting how many researchers use and cite your work in their own research papers.

Volume 2 • Issue 03 • 2003